Picture of Difford and Tilbrook playing Hourglass since I didn’t take a picture of the guy who paid an admission fee to sit in a loud room and do crosswords on his phone.

  • AlexanderESmith
    5•3 months ago

    Anyone who says the guy was “enjoying the show differently” is an idiot. They were just screwing up the show for the people behind them, and they’re probably a sociopath.

    As for possible reasons he was on his phone;

    • Argument with partner/friend - possibility resulting in them not going - spilled into the show via text (should have left)
    • Planted security, already seen the show a dozen times, just waiting for something rowdy enough to require intervention
    • Music/event/venue reviewer (seen all kinds of reviewers who apparently have a 5 second memory insist on taking notes in-situ. Movie critics are the fucking worst about this.)
    • Work “emergency”, fixing from phone

    Could probably come up with more, but it would be along these lines.

    • Flying SquidOPEnglish
      5•3 months ago

      Like I said, he was playing games on his phone, so there was no emergency. We watched him do a crossword puzzle while we were trying to not be distracted.

      • AlexanderESmith
        1•3 months ago

        Oh jeez. Missed that part.

        Okay, yeah, either the security guard thing, or maybe their group was elsewhere and they were the designated driver or something? I dunno, totally dumb that they we in the middle of the audience and not in the back row or in their car.